Sometime this afternoon, the results of the balloting for the Baseball Hall of Fame will be announced, and in a few weeks, the Pro Football Hall of Fame will also elect new members.Coupled with these announcements will be some serious bloviating by the sportswriters who vote on these things. It has started already with the self-important gasbag from MLB.com who has already announced why he did not vote for Greg Maddux.The Cardinals of the Catholic...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Monday, January 6, 2014
Got my reading for 2014 off with a bang with "Their Life's Work" by Gary M. Pomerantz. The subtitle of this book says it all: "The Brotherhood of the 1970's Pittsburgh Steelers, Then and Now."Now, when I first became aware of this book a few months back, I thought that it would be yet another regurgitation of facts and stories of the Super Bowl Seventies Steelers....
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Before we get too immersed in the NFL Playoffs and Monday's BCS title game, a final look back (and a tentative look forward) on the local scene.STEELERSIf you are really interested, you can see what I had prognosticated for the 2013 Steelers back in September here:http://www.grandstander.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-steelers-time.htmlIf I say so myself, I think I was pretty perspicacious in my predictions. However, if you don't want to read the...
Saturday, January 4, 2014
As I have done in previous years, I shall predict the NFL Playoff contests, week by week.Here you go:Colts over Chiefs. Have the Chiefs actually beaten a good team all season?Eagles over Saints. N.O. can't get it done outside in cold weather.Packers over 49ers. Aaron Rogers is back. Need I say more?Chargers over Bengals. All logic says that the Bengals will win this one, but when all is said and done, they are the Cincinnati...
The first Absent Friend of 2014 is Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers singing duo, one of the great rock & roll acts of the late 1950's and early 1960's. Phil passed away yesterday at the age of 74.In 2004, when Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited for their Old Friends Tour, they included The Everly Brothers as a part of their concert program, and in his introduction...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
The first Grandstander post of 2014 actually should have been written last night, but what the heck. Marilyn and I fulfilled our New Year's Eve tradition of attending a movie and dining on Kentucky Fried Chicken afterwards. You just can't top some traditions! This custom was started, by the way, back on New Year's Eve, 1990 when we both got home from work...
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